The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-03
Comanohe, Texas.

For the CITIZEN.
When we awoke this morning
we were attacked With q spell OF
inconsistencies. Our old rooster
crowed for day break ,and the
neighbours chickens answer him IN
the ssame key that they used to
crow in when we we're a boy in Vir-
ginia. Our neighbours calf bawled
for his mornings repast in the same
tone that We remembered In the
days of "Auld lang syne."
We felt that something unusual
had happened. It rained during the
night. 1t is the first rain since
early in September. The dust is all
washed out of the air, and the
ground is soft enough to make
tracks in in the softest places.
There are masses of feecy looking
summer clouds to be seen, very
much like you have in Tennessee in
finelweather. The sun shines warm
and without glare, and the air is
soft as May. Everything smells
like gardening time. Both man
and beast feel refreshed by the
shower. The small boys are wan
dering by with their niggel-shoot-
ers to the prairie to shoot at the
birds in the mesquite bushes. If
there were only something green to
look at there would be nothing
lacking to complete the enjoyment
of the season to a person with a
healthy appetite and enough to sat
isfy it with. We are told that there
are at least five hundred people in
the county that lack the last men
toned necessity for their well be-
ing. 1t is said that hundreds oil
people have been preparing to
leave by the first Of February, il
rains do not come before that time
1t will be necessary to have rains
by that time for the preparation Of
the sground for the spring crops
wheat, oats and corn. The farmer,
claim that all of the winter whea,
IS now killed; so that at the bes,
they can only expect to raise enough
to live on until another year. The
cattle men have been more fortu
nate, as the grass has been unusu-
: ally nutritious, and the cattle have
|; actually fattened. One very strang,
story, substantiated by many Of the
: most intelligent and respectable
citizens, is that the cattle outside o
} the pastures are doing as we'll a.
, those inside by eating leaves. They
| say that the leaves have cured lik,
hay and have become sweet ant
r nutritious, just as apples do b,
, keeping. l would have mentioned
7 this in letter of Jan. ist, but
J thought some of those outside cat
tie would starve on their diet O
t post oak leaves and the veracity O
, your correspondent would be ques-
toned. ] have not learned of any
f such results as yet.
t The mesquite grass of the prai
ries presents an equally strang
, phenomenon TO person who neve
, saw anything but the grasses tina
s grow east Of the Mississippi. 1t
8 blades now look as dry and brown
: as any hay in the NOW, and in
few days after a rain they will turl
to beautiful green. New blade
do not cause this appearance, blu
e the old leaves grow green to tn,
tips and keep on growing just as il
nothing had happened. Withou
: this grass We would truly have
t great American desert in this west
d ern country.
q Two rail roads are building 70
t our territory Notwithstanding til
A drouth and the apparent hopeless
r condition of the country. thin
). there is no doubt but that on
u will reach this place in less tha
q a year. Lands can now be bough
: at one half the price of two year
4 ago. l do not know whether the
d are cheap at the price Or not.